Beverly Daniel Tatum famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air, but we need to take responsibility, along with others, for cleaning it up. Each of us needs to look at our own behavior. Am I perpetuating and reinforcing the negative messages so pervasive in our culture, or am I seeking to challenge them?
-- Beverly Daniel Tatum

#Responsibility #Air #Justice
Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.
-- Beverly Daniel Tatum

#Exercise #Color #White
The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.
-- Beverly Daniel Tatum

#Responsibility #Doe #Tasks
It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.
-- Beverly Daniel Tatum

#Racism #Important #Action
To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.
-- Beverly Daniel Tatum

#Leadership #People #Different
The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.
-- Beverly Daniel Tatum

#Powerful #Racism #Justice
White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.
-- Beverly Daniel Tatum

#White #People #Justice
In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice.
-- Beverly Daniel Tatum

#Order #Justice #May
We all get misinformation growing up about people who are different from ourselves.
-- Beverly Daniel Tatum

#Growing Up #People #Different

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ... There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you're appointed by the king, they don't feel that they're responsible for the people. If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work â€” because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.
The oven became hotter and hotter, and Hansel began to sweat. Then a delicious smell wafted to his nostrils. Oh no! he thought. I'm cooking! He sniffed at the air. And I smell delicious!
Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

Beverly Daniel Tatum famous quotes

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